Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...center with AI Dewey and Sam Callaway left and right wing respectively. Captain Bill Watts and Dick Dow will hold down the defense positions and Ashton Emerson will be the opening goalie. The second line will be made up of Ford, Duffey, and Mike Hovenanian, with Ecker as a spare defense man and Bob Waldinger as the second string net-minder. The third line will be made up of Holmes, Hallowell, and Jimmy Roberts...
...struggle for the realization of the harvest, one of the principal places by rights belongs to the organs of Soviet justice, Soviet law and prosecution [which must act] in regard to a full preparation?where this has not yet taken place?of reaping machines, the supply of spare parts, of oil products for the machines, and the completion of working plans for harvesting, and the struggle against harvest losses...
...slip of paper, numbered the slips, sent them, with the letters, to a handwriting expert in Cleveland. He picked out the slip of Mrs. Zenobia Krapp, small, tidy wife of a dairy farmer and onetime president of Sorosis. So did experts in Chicago and New York. Quietly, to spare her feelings, the members called a meeting, suspended Mrs. Krapp from Sorosis...
Week after week, month after month, Eastman employes all over the world sell Kodak films and cameras, smile politely at squinting family groups, light-struck negatives, the round bottoms of infant sons. But most of them still take photographs in their spare time. To encourage them the paternal Eastman Co. holds an annual exhibition and gives prizes for the best photographs by its 23,500 employes. To Rochester last week for the ninth time went the favorite prints of 500 Kodak employes in 21 countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman...
...Critics who called him cheap pointed to the bombastic Finlandia or the lush Valse Triste which he wrote as incidental music for a play by his brother-in-law. Forbidding he was, in his way. He dovetailed into no set school. His scoring seemed classical but he used short spare motifs which he often left undeveloped. His pride in his symphonies was to scorn all claptrap effects, all hints of sensationalism...